. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . thither, was organized in the spring of Joshua Fry was appointed its commander, and MajorWashington his lieutenant. For a while Mount Vernon appeared like a recruitingstation. At length all preparations were completed, and onthe 2d of April, Major Washington, with the advanced corps,marched from Alexandria toward the Ohio. After a toilsomejourney of eighteen days, over the Blue Ridge, they reachedthe mouth of Wills Creek (now Cumberland), where Wash-ington, for the first time
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . thither, was organized in the spring of Joshua Fry was appointed its commander, and MajorWashington his lieutenant. For a while Mount Vernon appeared like a recruitingstation. At length all preparations were completed, and onthe 2d of April, Major Washington, with the advanced corps,marched from Alexandria toward the Ohio. After a toilsomejourney of eighteen days, over the Blue Ridge, they reachedthe mouth of Wills Creek (now Cumberland), where Wash-ington, for the first time, occupied a house for his head-quarters as a military commander. It was the dwelling of apioneer. It has long since passed away, but the pencil haspreserved its features, and now, at the distance of time ofmore than a hundred years, we may look upon the portrait ofWashingtons first Head-Quarteks. It is not our purpose to trace the events of Washingtonslife in their consecutive order. We propose to give delinea-tions of only such as held intimate relations with his beautiful AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. / 55. Washingtons first head-quabtees. liome on the Potomac, which, for more than forty years, wasto him the dearest spot on the earth. During the war between the French and English, that com-menced in earnest in 1755, when Braddock came to Americaas commander-in-chief of the British forces, until the close ofthe campaign of 1Y58, when the French and their duskyallies were driven from the forks of the Ohio, Washingtonwas almost continually in the public service, and spent butlittle time at Mount Yernon. He had been promoted toColonel in 1754, but, on account of new military an-ange-ments by the blundering, wrong-headed, narrow-minded Gov-ernor Dinwiddle, he had left the service with disgust, andretired to the quiet of private life at Mount Yernon, with adetermination to spend his life there in the pursuits of agricul-ture—pursuits which he always passionately loved, andlonged for mos
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